This angled gate fold card evolved into a different card than it started as, but I am now happy with it. This Painterly Pair suite is quickly becoming one of my favorites from Stampin’ Up as I just love the colors, they fall right in my wheelhouse, and the papers are so pretty.
To create this card, you just need a few things:
- Petal Pink card stock (Stampin’ Up)
- White card stock
- Painterly Pears designer series paper (July 2025 Online Exclusive Stampin’ Up)
- Perfectly Pears stamps and dies (Stampin’ Up)
- Free as a Bird stamp set (Retired Stampin’ Up)
- Ink
- Darling Duckling ink (2025-2027 In Color Stampin’ Up)
- Old Olve ink (Stampin’ Up)
- Black Momento ink (Stampin’ Up)
- Blender Pens (Stampin’ Up)
- Petal Pink (dark)
- Old Olive (light and dark)
- Mossy Meadow (light)
- Pecan Pie (Dark)
- Scoring board or paper trimmer scoring blade
- Paper trimmer
- Adhesive of choice
- Pop dots
With so me Petal Pink card stock cut the back card base to 5” x 5 ½” and score at 3/8” and 4 5/8” and fold both side up and in. Cut two pieces to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and score both at 2 1/8”. Mark down 2” and cut your angle and do the opposite direction with the other piece. From the white card stock cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼” and angle to match the inside angles.
Take your Painterly Pear designer series paper and find the white sheet with the pears and pink flowers, cut a piece to 4” x 5 ¼” for the back of your card. Find the Petal Pink piece with the small designs and cut two pieces to 1 7/8” x 5 ¼” and angle to match the front back panels. Now get the Petal Pink piece with pears and flowers and cut that to 1 7/8” x 4 ¼” and angle to match the front two panels.
With a scrap piece of white card stock and your black Momento ink, find the small pear outline stamp and stamp on your card stock. Then with Darling Duckling ink stamp the inside stamp to color your pears and give them some dimension. With your Pecan Pie Dark Blender Pen color the tree branch. For the leaves I colored them with the Old Olive Dark Blender Pen and then outlined the lower halves of them with the Mossy Meadow Dark Blender Pen. For the pears I blended colors from the outside lower edge in with Mossy Meadow Light, Old Olive Light and then Petal Pink Dark Blender Pens leaving the edges jagged instead of solid for more dimension.
Take a scrap piece of Petal Pink and die cut out a label that is about 1” x 2”. Adhere the pears to the left side. Take a label from the Perfect Pears dies and cut, then stamp the “A Good Friend is a gift” in Old Olive ink. Adhere that with pop dots to the right side of the label, overlapping the pears slightly.
Now start building your card by taking the Petal Pink card base and each of the Petal Pink angled pieces and adhere one of the angled pieces to each side on the two tabs. Cut the tabs where they hang out over the angle. Fold each side out at the score to form your angled gate fold. Now adhere your tag to the left front panel of your card with the other half hanging over the other panel (but not adhered to the panel).
Now open the card and adhere each of the white pieces to each side of the white pear paper. With the Free as a Bird stamp set and Old Olive ink, stamp the “your friendship means the world to me” greeting on the left white panel, and the “thanks for being you” greeting no the right white panel.
This card started with a belly-band wrapped in the Mossy Meadow and Gold Trim ribbon and a label on it layered with more stuff and it was just too much on the card so I changed it over to the label. You could still do a belly-band but I would keep it fairly plain if you do. I am now in love with this card and I always love gate fold cards.
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All cards are handmade and photos taken by DaisyChainFun.
